Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of Charles Fahy, general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, reporters were also barred from a "labor clinic." An Associated Pressman who got in reported that Mr. Fahy's reception was distinctly cool-an observation borne out by the fact that Mr. Fahy was later approached by Vice President H. L. Derby of American Cyanamid Co. who declared: "That was a fine, courageous action of yours, appearing here this morning." In spite of the fact that most of the N. A. M.'s members are reconciled to collective bargaining, they managed to write a labor platform...
...where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original manuscript to Menuhin, asking his opinion of the work. Menuhin replied with an enthusiastic endorsement and a request for performing rights, encouraged Strecker to contest the provisions of Joachim's will. Meantime in England a remarkable claim was advanced, remarkably supported by Critic Richard Capell (London Daily Telegraph) and internationally famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey. The claim: that the violinist, Jelly D'Aranyi, grandniece...
...quasi-judicial body, the ICC is accustomed to ponder its decisions long and earnestly. But established practice before any commission allows a petitioner to request an immediate emergency order after presentation of ample evidence pending a final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...
Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 63, and four other elderly British generals called by request at the War Office in London last week, stepped one by one into the private office of Leslie Hore-Belisha and handed in their resignations. Almost immediately came word that 50 other general officers had been passed over to make way for new Chief of the Imperial General Staff Major General John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Viscount Gort...
...Business' principal request is for reasonable certainty-the assurance that laws, policy, taxation will not change greatly between, say, the time a plant is planned and the time ii starts operating. And in approaching the peace negotiations, Mr. Chester will ask for open minds. He thinks his program is fair, social, constructive, liberal. "If it is not, we are prepared to make it so." He wants capital and labor to recognize in advance that both employers and union leaders must "get off the back fence and act like men of intelligence before real progress can be made. ... Is Government...